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No. 403,065. Patented May 7, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ROMEO ORSI, OF MILAN, ITALY, ASSIGNOR TO ALEXANDER A. BASSI, OF NET YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 403,065, dated May 7, 1889.

Application iiled May 17, 1888. Serial No. 274,135. (No model.) Patented in Italy November l0, 1881, XXV, 69, and in Belgium November l0, 1882, No. 59,533.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROMEO ORSI, residing in Milan, Italy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clarionets and like Instruments (for which I have obtained Letters Patent in Italy, dated November l0, 1881, Vol. 25, No. G9, and in Belgium, dated November 10,1882, No. 59,533,) of which the following is a specication.

Heretotore in instruments of this class each instrument was pitched for a certain key. If a player desired to play in a different key he was obliged to use another instrument to enable him to do so.

It is the object of my invention to provide an instrument upon which tunes can be played in more than one key by a simple adjustment of the sections of the instrument upon each other.

The invention consists in the novel arrangement and combinations of parts, that will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying' drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a clarionet constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a side view of the instrument shown extended, by which means the key has been Changed from that in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section through one of the joints, showing my improved means for holding the sections together. Fig. i is a similar section, showing the joint extended. Fig'. 5 is a crosssection on the line K K, Fig. et; and Fig. G is a vertical central section through the outer sleeve of one of the joints.

In the accompanying drawings is represented a elarionet composed of four separate sections lettered, respectively, A, B, D, and E. The instrument is provided with suitable keys and holes for producing' notes in the well-known manner. One end otl each section is provided with a proj ect-ing tube, a, which is adapted to enter a sleeve at the end of the adjacent section, as shown. The tube c carries near its end an outwardly-extending pin, l), which is adapted to entera groove, d, in the sleeve c of the next section. This groove d is on the inner wall of a sleeve, c, that tends from said adjoining section. The groove (Z is a two-way groove, (see Fig. 6.)-that is to say, it commences at the end f of the sleeve c and passes in a curved or sinuous manner inwardly along the inner wall of said sleeve. At a short distance from the end f the groove d has a substantially horizontal branch, g, (see Fig. 6,) which runs part-circumferentially around the inner wall of said sleeve e. A tube, h, may be p1ovided,which passes through the sleeve e, as in Figs. 3 and 4t, to carry the wind from one section to the other without interruption.

In joining the sections, t-he end of the tube a is placed into the sleeve e, the pin b entering the end f of vthe groove cl. The two sections are then pushed together, and at the same time a twist is given to the sections to carry the pin b in the sinuous lpart of the groove (l until the two sections abut, as in Figs. l and 3. In this position the instrument will play in a certain key-say the key of A. IVhen itis desired to play in another key-say, for instance, the key of B the sections are given an outward twisting pull, which causes the pin Z) to ride along the groove (Z toward the end f of the groove. IVhen the pin b comes opposite the branch g of the groove d, the sections are turned to carry the pin into the branch groove g and into the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4. The sections are now extended, as shown, whereby the key has been changed.

A set-screw, n, carried by the sleeve e, is adapted to bear against the tube a to hold the sections iirmly together. It the sections are separated and it is desired to play with the instrument extended, as in Figs. 2 and i, the tube a is placed against the end of the adjacent section, the pin b entering the end of the groove d. By now giving the tube a a slight inward push to bring the pin l) in line with the branch g, and then turning the sec tions, the pin b will pass along the branch groove g till it strikes the end of said groove, when the sections will be in the extended position, as in Figs. 2 and 4. By now turning up the set-screw n the parts will be held iirmly.

In the drawings the innerends of the groove d and its branch g are shown in line verti` Ioo cally with eaeh other. By this means when the sections are either extended' or contracted the note-holes and keys Will always be brought in line, or in their relative vertical proper positions.

The above construction will be found very eective, simple in manipulation, and not liable to get out of order.

I have also provided a key, F, upon the end section, E. This key, being at aconsiderable distance from the hands of the operator which play upon the next section, can be operated by bringing its arm 'i outside of a lever, j, pivoted at l to the section D. By pressing on the free end m of this lever j the key F will be operated. The outer side ofthe lever j is rounded, as in Fig. 5, so that in turning the sections it Will easily enter beneath the arm 'i of the key F. With this construction, whether the sections be extended or contracted, the key F canv be operated by the lever j. (See Figs. l and 2.)y If separate tubes a are not used', the pin b can be onthe endy of a' section' of the instrument. y

Although I have mentioned the music-keys; A andB to illustrate this invention, I Wish' it understoodv that the instrument is adapted to be changed from one key to any other desired' key by",m'o`ving the parts, as'described.

It is'evident that the groove d 'g could bev on the entering end @of a section, and the' pint on the innerkwall of the next section With the same results.

Having now described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a Wind-instrument composed of separate sections, the combination of one section having a two-way groove, d g, near its end, with another section having' a pin, b, near its end` adapted to enter the groove d g and to contact the closed ends of the groove, whereby the sections may be held extended or contracted in the same alignment, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a Wind-instrument composed of separate sections, the sleeve e, adapted to be carried by one of the .sections and having t-he two-Way groove d g, combined with the ad-` ling arranged to pass under and operate the key F, substantially as described'.

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Titnessem ANTHONY RicHMAN, GAETANO BERNARDINE. 

